 How transitory all human structures are, nay how oppressive the best institutions become in the course of a few generations. The plant blossoms, and fades: your fathers have died, and mouldered into dust: your temple is fallen: your tabernacle, the tables of your law, are no more: language itself, that bond of mankind, becomes antiquated: and shall a political constitution, shall a system of government or religion, that can be erected solely on these, endure for ever?Vol. 2, p. 79; translation vol. 2, pp. 113-14.

 What does your conscience say? — "You shall become the person you are."Variant translation: Become who you are.It is noted here, here and here that the phrase was first used by Pindar, and was merely re-used by Nietzsche.Sec. 270.

 Plautus has prepared himself for a life beyond the grave; the comic stage deserted weeps; laughter also and jest and joke; and poetic and prosaic will bewail his loss together. Epitaph of Plautus, by himself; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 232.

 Several victims were then sacrificed, and despite consistently unfavourable omens, he entered the House, deriding Spurinna as a false prophet. "The Ides of March have come," he said. "Yes, they have come," replied Spurinna, "but they have not yet gone."Ch. 81

 Several victims were then sacrificed, and despite consistently unfavourable omens, he entered the House, deriding Spurinna as a false prophet. "The Ides of March have come," he said. "Yes, they have come," replied Spurinna, "but they have not yet gone." Ch. 81